Re: [ubuntu-uk] Podcast 20 - easy bug reporting

oh the silly things you can do when moving emails about between computers and getting confused by dates . . . On 25/04/11 16:29, Alan Bell wrote: On 18/11/10 18:46, Jones, Victor wrote: -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Podcast 20 - easy bug reporting

On 18/11/10 18:46, Jones, Victor wrote: Hi Guys and Laura, I must say I really enjoyed your last episode (20). The discussion on putting up with bugs v’s reporting them v’s changing apps/distros/underwear was **great**. I REALLY agree with the principle that bugs should be reported. The thin

Re: [ubuntu-uk] I've started so I'll finish

The quiz night went very well, we got through the Ubuntu questions in short order, with prizes of baseball hats going to Martijn van de Streek and Alan Pope, and the Official Ubuntu Book going to Jessica Tallon. We then moved on to questions from the Geography, Science, Religion and SciFi categ

Re: [ubuntu-uk] I've started so I'll finish

I am getting the bot all set up and primed with questions, the mumble server is up and people are chatting on it, if you want to join in and check your sound is working that would be great, just install mumble from the software centre or with sudo apt-get install mumble from the command line. W

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal) Beta 2 Released

On 15/04/11 12:31, Tim Powys-Lybbe wrote: On 14 Apr at 21:25, Kate Stewart wrote: 2. If you are upgrading from 10.10: 1. Open the Update Manager application from the System → Administration menu. 2. In Update Manager, click the Settings... button, and enter your passwor

[ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu 11.04 Launch Party 28th April

ions http://shop.canonical.com/advanced_search_result.php?keywords=natty&op=Search . . . or perhaps one of these if you are a bit detached from reality http://shop.canonical.com/product_info.php?products_id=776 or a cyclist, which in London amounts to the same thing. See you there, and do take

[ubuntu-uk] The Team Meeting this evening

if you have anything to raise at the next meeting on May 5th go ahead and add it to the agenda wiki page here https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeamMeetingAgenda Alan Bell Ubuntu-UK LoCo Team Leader -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com

[ubuntu-uk] I've started so I'll finish

Saturday night 9PM is quiz night this week for the Ubuntu-UK LoCo! We have some swag to give away and are going to send this out to some lucky (and perhaps knowledgeable) winners of a quiz. The quiz will be conducted online with questions and answers over IRC in the #ubuntu-trivia channel

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Jam update

On 02/04/11 12:55, Alan Bell wrote: so far we have done a tidy up of the wiki pages http://pad.ubuntu-uk.org/ListOfUKTeamPages and now we are moving on to doing a natty install Alan so the base natty install went reasonably well, we found a few bugs to file. Now we are going to do the screen

[ubuntu-uk] Jam update

so far we have done a tidy up of the wiki pages http://pad.ubuntu-uk.org/ListOfUKTeamPages and now we are moving on to doing a natty install Alan -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu UK Virtual Global Jam

morning all, we are Jamming today, kicking off with a session at 10 am helping people get themselves set up with launchpad accounts, and personal wiki pages and going through other similar setup bits to help you get started. Alan. On 29/03/11 22:59, Alan Bell wrote: This Saturday from 10AM

[ubuntu-uk] Global Jam

here: http://pad.ubuntu-uk.org/globaljam2011 and if there is stuff you want to add to it then go right ahead. I look forward to talking to you tomorrow Alan Bell Ubuntu UK Team Leader -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

[ubuntu-uk] Team meeting 9PM this evening

Hi all, just a reminder, the next team meeting is this evening at 9PM in the #ubuntu-uk-meeting channel Agenda for this one is here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeamMeetingAgenda Minutes of the last one are here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/LastMeeting join in with an IRC client or a browser

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Natty Narwhal Launch Party

I have been made aware of an important factual error in my earlier email, the royal fiancées actually went to St Andrews and not Edinburgh. Alan. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

[ubuntu-uk] Natty Narwhal Launch Party

Hi all, as we move into April the release of Ubuntu 11.04 the Natty Narwhal swims into view. Because this will be a *huge* celebration we have arranged a bank holiday on the following day for you, so there is no excuse for not partying on a weekday. In the afternoon will be a slightly formal

[ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu UK Virtual Global Jam

This Saturday from 10AM to whenever we get bored there will be an online global jam session for the Ubuntu UK community. You can think of it as a virtual barcamp, and just like other barcamps the agenda is open and available for you to fill out with what you want to do. The agenda is in fact he

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Team Leadership Election Process

On 18/03/11 23:45, Phill Whiteside wrote: Hiyas, If you guys and gals capture Alan Bell as your team leader, you have made a fantastic catch. Across all the teams I see him assist on he is the epitome of what ubuntu means. He is caring, thoughtful, considerate and knowledgeable. I know that

Re: [ubuntu-uk] This train terminates here. All change, All change.

On 17/03/11 21:27, David Jones wrote: Train stops here? Would that be the Real Ale Train? What an excellent suggestion and as luck would have it the train is already penciled in for June http://pad.ubuntu-uk.org/2011plan in response to the demands for a speech, I don't really do that kinda

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Quiz Night!

On 06/03/11 20:38, Neil Greenwood wrote: On 3 March 2011 22:58, Alan Bell wrote: As you may have read in the minutes of the meeting this evening https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/MeetingNotes/20110210 we are going to hold a quiz night at some point in April. Questions will be mostly about Ubuntu

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Stuff appearing in Terminal, I dont know what it is......

On 06/03/11 19:11, John MM wrote: Um, I gave you the lines you wanted, those are the exact lines between the line numbers you asked for. oh, thats funny, I was expecting it to have the entries for virtualbox in it I am replying to you on IRC by the way . . . -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com ht

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Stuff appearing in Terminal, I dont know what it is......

On 06/03/11 17:33, John MM wrote: I didnt understand much of what you said, sounds like you had a long lunch though, hope it was a good one. it was beans on toast Here is the pastebin dump of those lines you wanted, its long 2000 odd lines, which is why I posted it to pastebin. Hope it helo

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Stuff appearing in Terminal, I dont know what it is......

On 06/03/11 18:50, John MM wrote: See, I dont understand how you can say that about volunteers waiting around, they dont wait around. I have never seen one of you wait around since I first started using Ubuntu. I have spent the past 20 years running and volunterring on quite a few different f

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Stuff appearing in Terminal, I dont know what it is......

nstallArchives() failed: warning, in file '/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 46354 package 'virtualbox-3.0': error in Version string '3.0.14-58977_Ubuntu_karmic': invalid character in revision number warning, in file '/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 48216 package 'virtualbox-2.2': error in V

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Stuff appearing in Terminal, I dont know what it is......

On 06/03/11 14:24, John MM wrote: On 06/03/11 13:11, Alan Bell wrote: top tip, when asking questions on IRC, stick around for more than a few minutes to get an answer! Alan. Thank you for the tip, but do have any thing more than that to offer? I really appreciate the tip, but it would be

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Stuff appearing in Terminal, I dont know what it is......

top tip, when asking questions on IRC, stick around for more than a few minutes to get an answer! Alan. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Local Council Meeting

I spent 13 years as a Lotus Notes programmer, there is zero business benefit switching email to Exchange, and they will still be using Notes for their business applications for at least the next 5 years. Alan. On 05/03/11 03:54, Jacob Mansfield wrote: apparently, it's lotus notes they're upgr

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Quiz Night!

On 03/03/11 23:34, Isabell Long wrote: click the linkie -> http://doodle.com/eucwzx2qdiiiqs5p<- Done. yay, good response so far, and I have my international team of Ubuntu gurus slaving away writing questions, up to 43 so far, should be over 100 by the time of the quiz. Alan. -- ubuntu-uk

Re: [ubuntu-uk] natty alpha 3 download - slow?

I just downloaded natty-server-amd64.iso in 64 seconds :) -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

[ubuntu-uk] Quiz Night!

As you may have read in the minutes of the meeting this evening https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/MeetingNotes/20110210 we are going to hold a quiz night at some point in April. Questions will be mostly about Ubuntu, or with an Ubuntuish kinda theme to them, and our quizmaster will be the quizbot

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Local Council Meeting

On 31/01/11 19:11, Jacob Mansfield wrote: does anybody recall the discussion about contacting your local council members about ubuntu a while back? Well I just got invited to a meeting to discuss this with David Lloyd! I would be grateful if one or two others accompanied me to this meeting as I a

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu UK Podcast returning

On 20/02/11 10:21, alan c wrote: I obviously missed out on something what does\o/mean please? little person waving two hands in the air in celebration you can also wave with one hand like o/ or \oor if things go wrong you can do this /o\ Alan -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com htt

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Test drive and V-Box ..

On 16/02/11 19:45, Philip Stubbs wrote: I was trying VirtualBox 4.0.2 on a 64 bit Windows host. I was at work and only mildly curious so did not spend too much time working out what was wrong. Can you please let me know what version you are using, as I may want to try and run it at home on a Lin

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Test drive and V-Box ..

On 16/02/11 19:07, Philip Stubbs wrote: On 16 February 2011 12:25, Alan Pope wrote: Due to the VirtualBox extensions not being present. Have you tried doing the install inside virtualbox and then adding the extensions, then rebooting the VM? The other day I downloaded the latest VirtualBox, an

Re: [ubuntu-uk] local council

On 13/02/11 19:17, Jacob Mansfield wrote: the CDs and flyers would be useful for my meeting as well, could I get a copy Yes. The loco team has an allocation of CDs each release and I happen to have a stash from the recent show. This is exactly the kind of thing that they are for. If anyone is g

Re: [ubuntu-uk] [ANNOUNCE] shiny new website - yay \o/

On 12/02/11 13:49, Colin Law wrote: I don't know whether it is a factor (probably not) but the html is not fully valid. See http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fubuntu-uk.org%2F&charset=%28detect+automatically%29&doctype=Inline&group=0. One of the issues is that there appears to be

Re: [ubuntu-uk] [ANNOUNCE] shiny new website - yay \o/

there was a tag in the code but some silly bunny had commented it out. remaining errors are for the secondary menu when it is empty and an invalid alt tag on something in the twitter feed, I am not too worried about either of these ones. I fixed some of the colour errors in the css file, but

Re: [ubuntu-uk] [ANNOUNCE] shiny new website - yay \o/

On 11/02/11 20:51, alan c wrote: Thanks, I am added. But I could not move my pin. have I missed something? (candtalan, bracknell) um no, you can't move the pin as such, you can place it somewhere by typing a town, street or postcode (or anything google maps can find if you search for it)

Re: [ubuntu-uk] [ANNOUNCE] shiny new website - yay \o/

On 11/02/11 18:29, Tony Scott wrote: Excellent work! Just to point out on the home page, in the para after " Ubuntu-UK is a Local Community Team. We aim to provide free community support to users of the various flavours of Ubuntu as well as advocating the use of Ubuntu to individuals and org

[ubuntu-uk] [ANNOUNCE] shiny new website - yay \o/

http://ubuntu-uk.org http://ubuntu-uk.org/2011/02/11/announcing-the-new-ubuntu-uk-org-website/ Following the redesign of the Ubuntu UK logo and the overall updated branding for the Ubuntu project we have been redesigning the UK team website. The website will be used for news articles about the

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Stickers?

On 04/02/11 16:37, Martin Meredith wrote: On 04/02/11 12:21, David Jones wrote: Assuming you mean Ubuntu stickers, one possibility is thelinuxemporium, although they're saying out of stock of the free stickers at the moment, but say keep sending requests in and they'll send them out when they

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Cloud expo Day 2

I am at a customer this morning, will turn up some point in the afternoon with The Open Sourcerer, have fun all those there today. Alan. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Cloud expo DIFFERENT PUB!!

On 02/02/11 15:59, Alan Bell wrote: If anyone is in London it would be great to see you at the Shakespeare Barbican, near Barbican tube http://ubunt.eu/jf after the expo closes this evening at 5PM some or several of us will be there for some or several beverages. Alan. ah bother. The

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Cloud expo PUB!!

If anyone is in London it would be great to see you at the Shakespeare Barbican, near Barbican tube http://ubunt.eu/jf after the expo closes this evening at 5PM some or several of us will be there for some or several beverages. Alan. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mail

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Cloud expo

On 02/02/11 10:57, Paula wrote: At the expo formerly known as Linux, can't find anyone, no-one's heard of ubuntu or .org. I don't have anyone's mobile number and no one seems to have Skype online. Giving up and going home. Paula argh! we are here, through the door, turn right. It is a bit m

Re: [ubuntu-uk] team meeting

that would be great! We can get in from 08:00 tomorrow, ask for an exhibitor pass, your names should be on the list if you are on the stand. I will be along as early as possible, but if other people get their first do make yourselves at home and set up stuff. Alan. On 01/02/11 13:28, gazz wr

[ubuntu-uk] team meeting

Hi all, The minutes from the team meeting this evening are here https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/LastMeeting The main topic for discussion was the open source expo next week http://www.opensourceexpo.co.uk/ where we are exhibiting. As well as those on the stand it would be great to see others f

Re: [ubuntu-uk] open source expo

On 26/01/11 22:20, Barry Drake wrote: Hi Alan Looking towards tomorrow night's meeting. I'm sure all will be revealed, but I see you are no longer there at the beginning. I'm thinking if we don't have the banner, posters and tablecloth at least, all we'll have is a couple or rather pathet

[ubuntu-uk] open source expo

Hi all, The .org pavilion at the show is now confirmed (I thought it was already, but hey, it really has been now) We have been asked to 'blog the life out of the event' and the organisers would appreciate if we could promote it on our LinkedIn and social networking sites/web sites etc... fy

Re: [ubuntu-uk] natty with unity

On 13/01/11 19:47, gazz wrote: About to write something for a VCS ICT mag about Ubuntu so thought I'd have a look at Natty - umm, not a big fan of Unity, ugly and ridiculously limited - wot, can't add stuff to the panel - what's the one at the top actually doing besides wasting space and tellin

[ubuntu-uk] Team Meeting minutes and expo plan

Hi all, minutes from the team meeting last night are in their usual place at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/LastMeeting The main matter arising is the http://www.opensourceexpo.co.uk/ and our stand in the .org village at it. We have a bit of a plan and created a schedule for the two days htt

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Installing the Edubuntu and edubuntu with architectuaral version.

On 10/01/11 11:02, Pottar Muzamba wrote: Thanks guys, I finally managed to finally install edubuntu on my laptop though it was a wrong version. I am looking for an edubuntu software with architetural software (autocad/ Archcad) which I can use to produce building drwaings. Any one with a clue of

[ubuntu-uk] Team Meeting

Hi all, the next team meeting will be held on Monday 10th January at 9PM in the #ubuntu-uk-meeting channel on the freenode network, you can join in a web browser at this url: http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=ubuntu-uk-meeting&uio=OT10cnVlJjEwPXRydWUmMTE9MjE46

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Linux expo in Feb 2011

On 08/01/11 11:17, Barry Drake wrote: On Fri, 2011-01-07 at 20:20 +, Alan Bell wrote: I got the mail below from Jeremy Comley in response to asking for a .org booth at the Cloud expo. I have said YES! and we need to get our act together in terms of staffing it and sorting out what we are

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Linux expo in Feb 2011

actually they are looking to fill more spaces, I will pass on the contact details. Alan. On 08/01/11 00:26, alan c wrote: Well done. I will be very happy to support the stand, both days if needed, arriving probably mid morning though. I will guess that my Infopoint stand proposal is not via

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Linux expo in Feb 2011

"Ubuntu UK" I should think. It has been on the meeting agenda for the last few team meetings, I started inquiries back in November before they had their act together on the .org village, but now they have a sponsor for that area (Linux IT) and are trying to fill it. Alan. On 08/01/11 00:31, a

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Linux expo in Feb 2011

Hi all, I got the mail below from Jeremy Comley in response to asking for a .org booth at the Cloud expo. I have said YES! and we need to get our act together in terms of staffing it and sorting out what we are doing on the stand etc. I expect an IRC meeting in the next few days would be a go

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Linux expo in Feb 2011

I did request a stand, I am following it up with the organisers. Alan. On 07/01/11 13:21, Neil Perry wrote: Hello David, There was some talk about us having a stand there, showing ubuntu and giving cds, not to sure if this is still happening. Have registered.. Neil Perry On 7 January 20

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Insurance.aes256 and OpenSSL

On 04/01/11 07:45, Rowan Berkeley wrote: Hi. AEScrypt say they have looked at WikiLeaks' mysterious 1.4GB 'Insurance.aes256' file, and it appears to have been encrypted using OpenSSL: http://forums.packetizer.com/viewtopic.php?f=72&t=108 I have the file itself, and the default OpenSSL packages fo

[ubuntu-uk] 2011 The year of the Linux Desktop . . .

Well maybe. Could be other stuff happening though, I was wondering what the year might hold and thought we could crowdsource a plan for the year ahead. Add your thoughts and ideas here: http://pad.ubuntu-uk.org/2011plan If any particular month is looking a bit light then that would be a great t

[ubuntu-uk] Christmas party tonight

Hi all, Take a moment to look forward to your impending long weekend of seasonal festivities with close family, distant relatives, and the not-quite-distant-enough ones. Think of the present opening, the joy of seeing another pair of socks, the screams of rage that inform you that Ben 10 was l

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Christmas Bashes

oll on Ilkley Moor (but don't forget your hat http://shop.canonical.com/product_info.php?products_id=704) Alan. -- Alan Bell The Open Learning Centre Web: http://www.theopenlearningcentre.com Mob: +44 (0)7738 789190 Tel: +44 (0)844 3576000 The Open Learning Centre is a trading name of

[ubuntu-uk] Christmas Bashes

n the Hub servers through Canonical I have been instructed to tell you) and they were interested in networking with you in a casual way in a casual environment. -- Alan Bell The Open Learning Centre Web: http://www.theopenlearningcentre.com Mob: +44 (0)7738 789190 Tel: +44 (0)844 3576000 The

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Netbook suggestion for a 4 year old

k. > > On the software side, I've never tried Edubuntu so any suggestion in > that area would be welcome. In particular, how to configure parental > control, what additional software to install, etc. > > Cheers, > > Bruno > > > -- Alan Bell The Open Learning Ce

Re: [ubuntu-uk] (no subject)

aq.html http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html -- Alan Bell The Open Learning Centre Web: http://www.theopenlearningcentre.com Mob: +44 (0)7738 789190 Tel: +44 (0)844 3576000 The Open Learning Centre is a trading name of Bell Lord Ltd, a company registered in England and Wales #05868943. VAT Registra

Re: [ubuntu-uk] (no subject)

That is how Richard Stallman started out selling tapes of Emacs (Emacs being Free Software, getting it posted to you on a tape being $100). Whether or not someone perhaps on dialup feels it is worth a few quid to get a CD is up to them. -- Alan Bell The Open Learning Centre Web: http://www.the

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Team meeting Tuesday evening

On 29/11/10 22:11, Alan Bell wrote: > Hi all, > > our rescheduled meeting is at 9:00 PM on Tuesday in the > #ubuntu-uk-meeting channel. You can join in from your web browser by > going to > http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=#ubuntu-uk-meeting&uio=OT10cnVlJjEwPXRydW

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Team meeting Tuesday evening

On 29/11/10 22:11, Alan Bell wrote: > Hi all, > > our rescheduled meeting is at 9:00 PM on Tuesday in the > #ubuntu-uk-meeting channel. You can join in from your web browser by > going to > http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=#ubuntu-uk-meeting&uio=OT10cnVlJjEwPXRydW

[ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu UK website hack day

Hi all, Some of us have been tinkering with the new LoCo team website which can currently be found at http://beta.ubuntu-uk.org It now has a slightly broken map thing http://beta.ubuntu-uk.org/where-are-we/ which we can hack into a less broken state, it has links to the IRC channel logs http:

[ubuntu-uk] Team meeting Tuesday evening

Hi all, our rescheduled meeting is at 9:00 PM on Tuesday in the #ubuntu-uk-meeting channel. You can join in from your web browser by going to http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=#ubuntu-uk-meeting&uio=OT10cnVlJjEwPXRydWUmMTE9MjEmMTI9dHJ1ZQ1d agenda is at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeamMeetingA

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Gronk, gronk, gronk

crew under the laptop somewhere to release it. The laptop should boot fine without it and that will tell you what is gronking. I suspect it is the CD drive seeking, and possibly a hardware problem with the drive. Alan. -- Alan Bell The Open Learning Centre Web: http://www.theopenlearningcentr

[ubuntu-uk] next team meeting

you next week Alan. -- Alan Bell The Open Learning Centre Web: http://www.theopenlearningcentre.com Mob: +44 (0)7738 789190 Tel: +44 (0)844 3576000 The Open Learning Centre is a trading name of Bell Lord Ltd, a company registered in England and Wales #05868943. VAT Registration #GB 901 4715

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Christmas Party \o/

I will give someone a prod about it. Alan. On 19/11/10 17:58, gazz wrote: Don't see any way to sign up? I was logged into launchpad, what am I missing? Thanks, Paula -- Alan Bell The Open Learning Centre Web: http://www.theopenlearningcentre.com Mob: +44 (0)7738 789190 Tel: +44

Re: [ubuntu-uk] New Linux website - Feedback? [was: ubuntu-uk Digest, Vol 67, Issue 28]

rietary platform that it is) seems to be doing a pretty good job in this area. -- Alan Bell The Open Learning Centre Web: http://www.theopenlearningcentre.com Mob: +44 (0)7738 789190 Tel: +44 (0)844 3576000 The Open Learning Centre is a trading name of Bell Lord Ltd, a company registere

[ubuntu-uk] Christmas Party \o/

Hi all, I am pleased to announce the Ubuntu UK Christmas party. It will be at the Hub Islington (same venue as last year) on Tuesday 21st December from 7PM until about 10ish http://islington.the-hub.net/public/ The venue is easy to get to from Islington tube station, but there are rather a lot

[ubuntu-uk] Meeting this evening

Hi all, We have a team meeting this evening, at 9PM. The agenda is in the traditional place at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeamMeetingAgenda and the last meeting minutes may be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/LastMeeting see you all in an hour or so, Alan. -- Alan Bell The Open

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Is grandr the best way to use digital projector?

uld work fine. Don't try pairing your laptop with the projector for the first time with an audience watching you do it! Do a tech check well in advance of any actual presentation and do this every time you have to hook it up to a different projector. Alan. -- Alan Bell The Open Learning Ce

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Is grandr the best way to use digital projector?

view of the next slide or next effect * the notes of the current slide * the current time and/or the elapsed time * navigation buttons for going to the previous/next slide -- Alan Bell The Open Learning Centre Web: http://www.theopenlearningcentre.com Mob: +44 (0)7738 789190 Tel: +44

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu volunteers wanted!

contact with other people > supporting Ubuntu in London. > > Drop me an email if you think you might be able to help :) > > Paula > I will try to find an excuse to be in London that day, not sure when the fireworks will be. -- Alan Bell The Open Learning Centre Web: http://www.th

Re: [ubuntu-uk] IFSec show in Birmingham NEC 2011

On 25/10/10 10:48, Barry Drake wrote: > On Mon, 2010-10-25 at 10:14 +0100, Cornelius Mostert wrote: >> I have been to the 2010 IFSec show (IT and other Security show) at the >> NEC in Birmingham and even though it was a very good show I was very >> disappointed as there was no Linux stand and was

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Support - Where are we in the real world

On 20/10/10 10:42, jakewc2 wrote: > Well, this thread was a total waste of time. All this crap about help, > willingness, is a load of bollocks. Your just a nasty group of people. > > > Well having got in from work and looked through my IRC scrollback it would appear that you got all abusive an

Re: [ubuntu-uk] LTS or Latest Version??

On 20/10/10 00:07, Chris Coulson wrote: > > Well, the LTS *will* get a new version of Firefox in the future (once > 3.6 is end-of-life), although it will most likely skip 4.0. > > Regards > Chris no, don't think 10.04 LTS will get a new version of Firefox, however if you install 10.04 you will b

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Find a Router's IP address

P address > 6. You know the router is NOT a DHCP server > > Now the question is HOW do you find the IP address of the router ??? > > thanx use nmap to scan the subnet and report on what it finds, You will probably recognise the manufacturer from the list of network cards it

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Christmas pis^H^H^H Party

On 19/10/10 12:22, pmgazz wrote: Agree, Hub much nicer :) Paula OK, several votes for the Hub then! I would rather go for the Kings Cross Hub as the Islington one has about 8 flights of stairs and no lift. I gave them a call, they are thinking of doing a shared event for several smaller

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Christmas pis^H^H^H Party

Here are some of the pictures from the event last year: http://picasaweb.google.com/alanbelltolc/UbuntuUK Alan. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Support - Where are we in the real world

l from a page on wiki.ubuntu.com for example) Alan. -- Alan Bell The Open Learning Centre Web: http://www.theopenlearningcentre.com Mob: +44 (0)7738 789190 Tel: +44 (0)844 3576000 The Open Learning Centre is a trading name of Bell Lord Ltd, a company registered in England and Wales #058689

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Support - Where are we in the real world

On 18/10/10 19:34, Jacob Mansfield wrote: > what wiki software does the ubuntu site use, I know mediawiki has an > extension for google maps that can be implimented like the one on the > suse site. here's the link: > http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Google_Maps > Jacob Mansfield > Progra

[ubuntu-uk] Christmas pis^H^H^H Party

Hi all, Last year we had a rather smashing time at the Christmas event with an evening of sherry and mince pies at the Hub in Islington, London. I propose we do something along the same lines, perhaps at a different venue. There is another Hub in Kings Cross which is rather nice, and I am su

Re: [ubuntu-uk] The new Ubuntu-UK website

On 18/10/10 16:51, Tony Scott wrote: > Alan > > Yes you're right - there are in fact Ubuntu/Canonical web design guidelines > in > the pdf linked from here > > http://design.canonical.com/the-toolkit/guides-for-websites/ > > I would use the page header top level nav detailed in the pdf - so it'

Re: [ubuntu-uk] The new Ubuntu-UK website

Is this for people who are already part of Ubuntu UK or is it > also for the general public? It suggests on etherpad that this site > is mainly a resource for the team by my reading. the etherpad is for writing as well as reading! If you have ideas on who the audience is then slap them down

Re: [ubuntu-uk] The new Ubuntu-UK website

On 18/10/10 16:11, Chris Rowson wrote: > It might be an idea to make the ubuntu-uk podcast logo a wee bit > smaller. At first glance I thought it was a site about the ubuntu-uk > podcast too ;-) In fact, what would it look like somewhere else? dunno really, hop on to http://pad.ubuntu-uk.org/webs

Re: [ubuntu-uk] The new Ubuntu-UK website

On 18/10/10 15:51, Tony Scott wrote: > I'd swap the ubuntu-uk logo to the left, and the podcast logo to the right. > > When I first went to the beta site, it immediately gave the impression of > being > a site about the podcast. > > Most users, I suspect, expect the site logo to be left aligned,

Re: [ubuntu-uk] The new Ubuntu-UK website

On 18/10/10 15:56, Mark Fraser wrote: On Monday 18 Oct 2010 15:09:37 Alan Bell wrote: > > This would of course be an ideal vehicle for doing something fancy with > a map and all the where are we type information that has been discussed > recently. There was a frappr map, but

Re: [ubuntu-uk] The new Ubuntu-UK website

On 18/10/10 15:44, Liam Gallear wrote: > I agree, looks nice and clean. > > Is it just going to be the single page or will there be more added? > > Regards, > > Liam Gallear > Loads more to add, just trying to get the sidebar to display on pages at the moment, it does on posts. It can do a blog

[ubuntu-uk] The new Ubuntu-UK website

I have been working with Dave Walker and Alan Pope on a new website for the team, based on the new Ubuntu branding and using Wordpress.org as the platform. The idea is that this will be a hub linking to our other resources including our area of the Ubuntu wiki at http://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu/Linux is still not an OS for the masses - discuss

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Support - Where are we in the real world

s and post it on a site somewhere? > > I would do it, but I don't have write access to an appropriate Ubuntu > site. I know some of you do. > > Regards, Barry. in a word, yes, but I will start another thread about that. I am from Farnham in Surrey -- Ala

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu/Linux is still not an OS for the masses - discuss

http://askubuntu.com/ sorry, was typing on a phone using an email client full of fail. -- Alan Bell The Open Learning Centre Web: http://www.theopenlearningcentre.com Mob: +44 (0)7738 789190 Tel: +44 (0)844 3576000 The Open Learning Centre is a trading name of Bell Lord Ltd, a company

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu/Linux is still not an OS for the masses - discuss

Seen http://askbuntu.com ? That is a new site for questions and answers and it seems quite popular. "Paul Morgan-Roach" wrote: >On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 2:32 PM, Paul Tansom wrote: > >> >> Support wise, I can sympathise, although based on experience when asking >> questions on Windows forums. T

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu/Linux is still not an OS for the masses - discuss

I and I have a rock solid display on the external monitor. Alan. -- Alan Bell The Open Learning Centre Web: http://www.theopenlearningcentre.com Mob: +44 (0)7738 789190 Tel: +44 (0)844 3576000 The Open Learning Centre is a trading name of Bell Lord Ltd, a company registered in England

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu/Linux is still not an OS for the masses -discuss

our issue will most likely be resolved (very few people have a totally unfixable hardware configuration) Information from this process can then be fed into the next version of Ubuntu so that the awesome bits are more awesome and the sucky bits suck less. Alan. -- Alan Bell The Open Learning

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